Back care in the office
A great deal of time and effort goes into designing office seating that is ‘ergonomic’ and encourages good posture, particularly for computer users. Indeed legislation now exists to encourage employers to undertake health and safety assessments of the office furniture their staff use and in particular their operator chairs. However, regardless of how expensive or well designed your office chair is a much simpler system is just to keep moving. The Human body was designed to be constantly moving and sitting in one position for long periods will do more harm than just using a badly designed chair. It is still important of course to ensure that staff are using the best possible designs in office furniture and in particular the office seating but a more productive approach can be to create working practices that allow staff to move during the day.